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    Continuous Present
    Continuous Present
    Continuous Present
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    Continuous Present

    By John Michael Flynn

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    In this collection, Continuous Present, John Michael Flynn correlates his poems to moves from his study of the Asian martial art of Tai Chi Chuan. He seeks to address and confirm the idea that it is not inaccurate to consider that the past remains illusory and cannot exist without our conception of the fleeting present. Each poem examines fluidity and is titled in a phrase written in the present continuous tense and based on an action, a moment, an observation, a mood, or an occurrence large or small. Through the examination of these connections to motion, he hopes to reveal how many of the ways we choose to behave in the present, in relation to time's passing, do not define our sense of order amidst chaos, or any one best choice regarding how to live, though they may help us learn to accept, whether accurate or not, who we think we are. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFlight Delay Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2024
    ISBN9798224203086
    Continuous Present
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    John Michael Flynn

    John Michael Flynn also writes novels as Basil Rosa. He's published three collections of short stories, one with Publerati, and another with Fomite, and a book of essays with New Meridian Arts. He's taught at schools, colleges and university in the United States, Moldova, Turkey and Russia. To quote the poet Forrest Gander, "his poems are not absurdly modern but take the risk of articulating a serious moral gaze." 

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